Chunky6617

1 vs 3 2 vs 4 5 vs 7 6 vs 8

I think if Enterprise was in region 5 or region 7 they would make the playoffs.

I agree. Either way they would have to get by the winner of region 6 in round 3, whether it’s Heidelberg or Mize. And regardless of who that is, that’s not gonna happen. It’s possible that Lake wouldn’t even make the playoffs if they were in region 6. Their entire region was swept in the first round last season.

Lake will finish #2 in their region, but the only way they would make it to South state would mean they have to beat Mize or Heidelberg in round 3. And that ain’t happening, not even close. Heck we were beating Lake at halftime 42-0 in the first round last season. Lake may wouldn’t even make the playoffs if they were in region 6.

1-2A: Baldwyn Hamilton Hatley Walnut 2-2A: Water Valley Myrtle East Union Staryhorn Bruce 3-2A: Northside Charleston JZ George Leland MS Palmer 4-2A: East Webster Kemper County Velma Jackson Eupora Philadelphia 5-2A: Scott Central Lake Pelahatchie Newton Puckett 6-2A: Heidelberg Mize Bay Springs Clarkdale Enterprise Clarke 7-2A: Wesson Amite County Loyd Star Wilkinson County Enterprise Lincoln 8-2A: East Marion Collins Perry Central North Forrest Sacred Heart Top 5 North: East Webster Baldwyn Northside Kemper County Charleston Top 5 South: Heidelberg Mize Wesson East Marion Scott Central

Thats probably not accurate

You can tell these rankings shouldn’t be looked at as credible considering they don’t even know Calhoun city isn’t a 2A school

Ricky Black had to be #1

I think Newton and Newton county schools, not just districts, are considering consolidating. Columbia tried to get east and west Marion to all consolidate with them a few years ago but west and east declined.

Mount Olive has 15 total students in their entire upcoming 7th grade class. They only have 22 in the 8th grade class. I don’t know how much longer that school can make it.

That’s nonsense. That’s the excuse these bigger schools use to recruit… “these kids just want exposure”. It’s not 1998 anymore. If a player is good, they will get exposure even if they play 1A ball. The internet has made the whole “exposure” talking point a myth.

Possibly. They made a lot of really bad hires in administration for a few years and that’s set them way back. You can’t lose your school. Once the school goes, the town eventually goes too. And it’s almost impossible to ever restore it

And? If it’s not such a big deal your school wouldn’t be using it as a recruiting tool

Everybody knew Tristan Keys was gonna be the next big thing when he was in Pee Wee.

Youth football in Mississippi has become an absolute circus with recruiting. It’s digusting what these “adults” are doing to a child’s game.

There are some that you know will be studs. And yes they absolutely do recruit them. At Hattiesburg they even find houses for them at good prices to move to, and even try to find jobs for their parents. And there’s nothing illegal about that. As long as the player moves into the district, it’s fine. But there are some of those kids that move into the district initially, then eventually move back out of the district but keep going to school at Hattiesburg.

They use their youth league to do alot of recruiting. Them, oak grove, and Columbia had been doing it for a while. Scott central used to do it too, they poached alot of players from Forest. That’s when Scott central got really good in 2A and won some state championships and Forest was suffering for a little bit. Forest now has kind of put the clamps on it.

The kid from north Forrest is a RB, and they recruited him 2 years ago.

He went to school in Taylorsville in elementary school, but he stayed in trouble and was always being suspended and failing class. The superintendent at that time then made him go to Mize, hoping it would give him a fresh start and help the kid. Well it worked. He became a better student, made better grades, and got in less trouble. He was a really good young athlete. Agee has been trying to convince him to come back to Tville for a couple years. But this last year as a true freshmen he was upset that he wasn’t playing as much as he thought he should be playing and started telling everybody he was gonna go back to Tville, and he is. He’s not been to any practices because I think he may be playing travel baseball but you will see him eventually. As for the other players he’s tried to recruit from Mize, it’s our best player Gray and our QB/LB Agee. He’s also buddies with a guy from Magee that’s also tried to recruit those players for him. This guy (his friend) has been trying to convince different players to leave Mize for a couple years with no success, mostly to Simpson academy, including my son who will also be a senior next year, and that I would never allow to happen anyway. Kind of disappointed to see it happen, because our head coach has always liked Agee and has a lot of good things to say about him. But I guess that’s what high school sports has become now. Everybody recruits now I guess.

Speaking of recruiting, Taylorsville’s head coach has been working his butt off in recruiting and it’s finally paid off a little bit. He has been trying to recruit a handful of mize kids for a couple years now and he finally convinced one of our better 10th graders to move. The only reason he will get away with this one is because the kid already lives in Taylorsville and always has. The former superintendent a few years ago moved him to Mize basically to rehab him because he stayed in trouble in Tville and was failing while in elementary school. He came to Mize a few years ago and turned everything around. Agee has been trying to get him back at Tville for a while now and he finally got him. He’s a good athlete, hopefully for him he doesn’t fall back into old habits now that he’s back at Tville.

Whether or not they should, they ain’t gonna mess with them, IMO

Smith county will never consolidate all 3 schools, and they shouldn’t. There is no reason to. Mize is one of the best schools in the entire state, and Raleigh also is one of the better schools. They aren’t struggling academically and don’t have any behavioral issues whatsoever. Taylorsville is the only school that’s struggling. They actually have shown a lot of improvement the last couple of years compared to where they were a few years ago, but again once those parents move out and no new parents move in, it’s hard to get a school back to where it once was. It’s almost impossible. Unless new parents start moving into Tville, the school isn’t going to improve enough. And nobody is trying to move their kids into the school. If anything, more and more parents are trying to get them into mize or Sylva bay.

The question is what schools consolidate with who? Seminary ain’t gonna allow consolidation with mount olive and collins. So mount olive would just have to consolidate with collins alone. Taylorsville eventually is going to have to consolidate with somebody but I think that’s still several years away. Once you allow a school to go down it’s almost impossible to save it. And Tville went down super fast, almost like it was overnight. Now nobody wants to move into the town because they don’t want their kids to go to school there.

I don’t think Choctaw central will be affected.